After returning from the Plone Conference in DC, we realized a few things:
1) Buildout is here to stay
2) Python Eggs are here to stay
We’ve been waffling on whether or not to move toward these technologies, but the research and data now show the clear benefits of utilizing them, of paramount importance is the ease at which they help the (re)deployment story.
Using Martin Aspeli’s egg cooking inroduction, Jon and I set out to convert our PloneBookmarklets AddOn into a full fledged egg, which can be found in the collective at collective.plonebookmarklets. The entire process, form creating a buildout environment, to testing the development egg, took only 90 minutes. Granted, it is a relatively simple product, with not many lines of codes, but it was really satisfying to see how approachable this new framework has become.
The egg can be found in the collective, for the time being; we’ll realease to the Cheese Shop once we figure out the process.
Another great factoid about this revision…it has contributions from 3 additional developers. ONE/Northwest provided numerous fixes related to browser layers and image cacheability, we have additional contributions for translations (Spanish and Basque), and some new social bookmarking tool additions as well (Facebook and Technorati). Thanks to those who are using the product, and have taken the time to make it better as well!
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